Anna Lawton has earned her PhD in Russian Literature at UCLA. She worked both in academia and in government. As a professor, she taught courses in literature, cinema and visual culture at Purdue University and Georgetown University. She has served on the Advisory Film Committee of the National Gallery of Art, has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and a member of the jury for the most prestigious Italian book award, Premio Strega. She is the author of several books, including two novels. She is also the founder and head of New Academia Publishing.
